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No more weight loss

06-25-2012, 09:38 AM

I need some serious help. I've been Paleo since 2/27/12. NOT to lose weight but to detox, etc. Unfortunately I have lost some weight and I can't afford to lose more. I eat a lot of nut butter, meat, chicken, eggs, honey, avocado and loads of fruits and vegs. Help me put some weight back on, please.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

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When I cut out dairy during Whole30, I had all sorts of snot and loogies coming out of me. Can't tell me that's not a detox. Also if you go meat only for a week or two, you poop like mad (at least I did). In my mind, that's also detox.

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My problem with the whole "detox" thing is no one ever says what toxins specifically are being excreted by the body. Also, but no less important, the word "toxin" itself is loaded. It sets up the gullible to start seeing their bodies as polluted, which can lead to a lot of stress through obsession with being "clean."

I was borderline obese for 10 years, overweight for over 20. When I tried Whole 30, I never had any signs of "detox," and I was eating crap just as unhealthy as anyone else for all those years. I also did a water fast for 8 days at one point and noticed nothing strange.

The dairy thing makes me think that yes, something in dairy is an allergen for you, and your body had built up all those loogies and mucus in defense against it, to discharge them when it saw that the allergen was removed. Maybe your body isn't "detoxifying" itself, it's just getting rid of mucus that it doesn't need. Likewise, I've heard lots of anecdotal evidence that fiber bungs up your bowels. Remove that fiber and whoosh. Oils and junk? Probably related to the mucus; things the body made to defend itself, which it no longer needs.

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Do you do okay with dairy? I know you say you are Paleo so have cut it out entirely but adding some quality raw cheese or homemade full fat greek-style yogurt from grass fed milk may help. Grass fed butter also. Add it to your coffee. Start adding oils/fats to all veggies, cook your meat in fat. Consider eating regular potatoes with the skins removed. I slice the red skins we get in our produce box and fry them in bacon fat for my kids. I hear they are fantastic. My kids also eat potato chips fried in avocado oil:http://www.amazon.com/Good-Health-Av...1154564&sr=1-8